Wetland Preservation Through Partnership
In a step toward becoming a ‘greener' port., the Port sold a portion of its Willow Grove property in 2008 to Columbia Land Trust (CLT), a conservation group based in Vancouver, Washington. The Port's partnership with Columbia Land Trust began in the 1990s.
With intentions of industrial development, the Port had purchased 388 acres of Willow Grove wetlands property in 3 separate transactions (1959, 1965 and 1974). Since then, however, steepened mitigation requirements have deterred such development. To date, the property has been used only in the mitigation of industrial developments at the Port's main property.